After a good sermon today (sermon title: "Spit"), I picked up some stuff from the container store and then headed home. Before I could unpack or install the stuff, I got a very strong urge to go to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. After reflecting for about 30 milliseconds, I called Diane to see if she'd like to meet me there in 45 minutes, checked that the place would still be open when we got there, and headed off to Brooklyn.
It was one of those amazingly right decisions. We stumbled on their annual fall festival for families. There was great fiddle music on the main lawn:
And everywhere, kids in adorable costumes. I loved this interracial grouping: a Dragon, Supergirl, and a Candy Corn:
As the fiddling concert ended, we saw that a band called Slavic Soul Party was playing at the other end of the green. So we started making our way over to see them.
LOVE the tiger outfit with the ginger hair. Too cute!
They had a book barn, with painted animal reader scenes. The horse here is reading "Animal Farm":
While the pig is reading "Brick House Building":
Slavic Soul Party was so much fun! They had the whole crowd bopping and jumping. We ran into several people that Diane knew, and one of them mentioned that this band plays every Tuesday at a local club. I'll have to check it out.
Once this concert wrapped up, we continued our exploration. Some lovely gourds:
A few chickens were loose, but they didn't seem to be causing much trouble:
But we didn't get far before the sound of drums and the sight of pageantry brought us right back to the main lawn. Sargent Pepper led the Halloween parade:
He was followed by folks on stilts:
It made me think of a medieval religious procession:
Except with giant puppet costumes:
I think this is the kid of Diane's friends:
Water lilies:
The pageant from another angle:
A gloriously uplifting and fun afternoon. Just what the doctor ordered!
And everywhere, kids in adorable costumes. I loved this interracial grouping: a Dragon, Supergirl, and a Candy Corn: 
As the fiddling concert ended, we saw that a band called Slavic Soul Party was playing at the other end of the green. So we started making our way over to see them.We missed most of the crafts, but we saw their pumpkin & gourd artwork:
LOVE the tiger outfit with the ginger hair. Too cute!
They had a book barn, with painted animal reader scenes. The horse here is reading "Animal Farm":
While the pig is reading "Brick House Building":
Slavic Soul Party was so much fun! They had the whole crowd bopping and jumping. We ran into several people that Diane knew, and one of them mentioned that this band plays every Tuesday at a local club. I'll have to check it out. In this picture, I was trying to capture the kid being hugged by the green spider (he was also carrying a bucket of eyeballs, how cute is that?!) but I really liked the protective gesture of the older sister here:
Holy cow!
Once this concert wrapped up, we continued our exploration. Some lovely gourds:
A few chickens were loose, but they didn't seem to be causing much trouble:
But we didn't get far before the sound of drums and the sight of pageantry brought us right back to the main lawn. Sargent Pepper led the Halloween parade:
He was followed by folks on stilts:
It made me think of a medieval religious procession:
Except with giant puppet costumes:
I think this is the kid of Diane's friends:
Water lilies:
The pageant from another angle:
A gloriously uplifting and fun afternoon. Just what the doctor ordered! After this, I met up with U-chan and Hika-chan for dinner... and Len and her boyfriend Mike were able to make it too! We went to Pukk, a Thai restaurant which turns out to be 100% pure vegetarian. Including the chicken and duck.
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